da Camino

The da Camino were a noble family of Lombard origin in the March of Treviso, probably descended from the Colalto. In the tenth century Guido received Montanara castle from King Conrad I for saving him, his sons winning lands from the bishop of Ceneda; their castle near Oderzo stood at Camino, which named the family. Within a century they dominated Ceneda, Feltre and Belluno and the Cadore mountains.

Treviso's commune reduced them to ordinary citizens between 1183 and 1199, but they returned as leaders of the Guelphs against the Ghibelline da Romano, twice holding Treviso in the 1230s before expulsion. Gherardo III da Camino made himself signore of Treviso in 1283, ruling as a builder and patron of letters with Dante Alighieri among his guests.

His son Rizzardo inherited peacefully, but the 1309 occupation of Udine ended in defeat; a switch to the Ghibelline side brought rapid ruin: Guecellone was driven from Treviso, and the family lost all its lands to Venice in 1335. A Cadore line numbered the painter Titian among its descendants.